AMD's Epyc 4 will likely beat Intel Sapphire Rapids to market

In the latest blow to Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise execs tell The Register its 4th-Gen Xeon Scalable-equipped systems won't ship before AMD's Epyc 4. The news comes as HPE teases four new ProLiant Gen11 systems powered by AMD's next-generation Epyc datacenter CPUs, codenamed Genoa, which are slated to launch during an …

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

It is about time...

When the "bread and butter" HP servers start using AMD before Intel - that IS a sign I was waiting for. Lenovo/Fujitsu/Microstar/etc should be the next to do the same...

[darklord]

Re: It is about time...

Its all about commercial agreements and #Intel first, the AMD footprint is too small for big manufacturers to dump Intel to second helpings im afraid.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: It is about time...

Did you actually read the article?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: It is about time...

gen11 even arrived on Arm before x86 so it shows which way they think things are heading.

[IanRS]

Complementary service?

"Compute Ops Management is a complement to rather than a replacement for iLO."

i.e. An extra expense-as-a-service rather than a replacement one.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Complementary service?

As long as I can SSH into it and it has a virtual serial port I can access for free who cares what's it's called.

You have to pay for lots of features of iLOs but since they're one's I don't need I don't tend to worry about them, although central account management wouldn't go amiss.

[Fenton]

4/8 Socket

I just wish AMD would get into the 4 and 8 Socket market for Memory requirements > 6TB (yes I know you could use 256GB and larger DIMMs, but reliability goes down)